Romney Aide: Obama Adviser Is Lying About 2012 Concession Call

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WRITTEN BY Jackie Kucinich & Ben Jacobs

David Axelrod is claiming Romney ‘shocked and irritated’ the president by talking about Election Night turnout in racial code—but Garrett Jackson says his boss said no such thing.

What did Mitt Romney really tell President Obama on Election Night 2012?

In a forthcoming memoir, former Obama adviser David Axelrod writes that the president was “shocked and irritated” by Romney’s concession call that night. Axelrod reports that Obama told him that the Republican presidential nominee said: “You really did a great job of getting the vote out in places like Cleveland and Milwaukee.” To Obama, that was racial code: “‘in other words, black people. That’s what he thinks this was all about,’” the adviser recalls the president saying.

But according to one of the three people in the room with Romney when he made his concession call, the former Massachusetts governor never said anything of the kind.

Garrett Jackson was Mitt Romney’s personal aide for four years and notoriously press shy. The soft-spoken Mississippian was more far comfortable in the background, handing a homemade peanut butter and honey sandwich or a Sharpie to Romney when needed, than being in the spotlight. Even after the campaign, Jackson has remained press averse, but he decided to come forward when he saw Axelrod’s account of Romney’s exchange with Obama.

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